Aaron Ago Dagang

{{short description|Malaysian politician}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = Yang Berhormat Dato Sri

| name = Aaron Ago Dagang

| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=MYS|size=100%|PJN|PNBS|MP}}

| image =

| caption =

| birth_name = Aaron Ago anak Dagang

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|12|12|df=y}}

| birth_place = Crown Colony of Sarawak (now Sarawak, Malaysia)

| residence =

| death_date =

| death_place =

| office = Minister of National Unity

| monarch = Abdullah
{{small|(2022–2024)}}
Ibrahim Iskandar
{{small|(since 2024)}}

| primeminister = Anwar Ibrahim

| predecessor = Halimah Mohamed Sadique

| successor =

| deputy = Saraswathy Kandasami
{{small|(since 2023)}}

| term_start = 3 December 2022

| term_end =

| constituency = Kanowit

| office1 = Deputy Minister of Health II

| monarch1 = Abdullah

| primeminister1 = Ismail Sabri Yaakob

| term_start1 = 30 August 2021

| term_end1 = 24 November 2022

| minister1 = Khairy Jamaluddin

| predecessor1 = Himself

| successor1 = Lukanisman Awang Sauni
{{small|(Deputy Minister of Health)}}

| constituency1 = Kanowit

| monarch2 = Abdullah

| primeminister2 = Muhyiddin Yassin

| term_start2 = 10 March 2020

| term_end2 = 16 August 2021

| minister2 = Adham Baba

| predecessor2 = Lee Boon Chye
{{small|(Deputy Minister of Health)}}

| successor2 = Himself

| constituency2 = Kanowit

| constituency_MP3 = Kanowit

| parliament3 = Malaysian

| term_start3 = 21 March 2004

| term_end3 =

| majority3 = 2,057 (2004)
Walkover (2008)
3,042 (2013)
4,312 (2018)
236 (2022)

| predecessor3 = Leo Moggie Irok
(BN–PBDS)

| successor3 =

| office11 = Faction represented in Dewan Rakyat

| subterm11 = 2004–2018

| suboffice11 = Barisan Nasional

| subterm12 = 2018

| suboffice12 = Parti Rakyat Sarawak

| subterm13 = 2018–

| suboffice13 = Gabungan Parti Sarawak

| party = Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP)
Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS)

| otherparty = Barisan Nasional (BN)
{{small|(–2018)}}
Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS)
{{small|(since 2018)}}

| occupation = Politician

| relations =

| spouse = Rowenna Ping Bungan

| children =

| website =

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Aaron Ago anak Dagang (born 12 December 1958) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Minister of National Unity in the Unity Government administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim since December 2022 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kanowit since March 2004. He served as the Deputy Minister of Health II for the second term in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and former Minister Khairy Jamaluddin from August 2021 to the collapse of the BN administration in November 2022 and his first term in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration under former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and former Minister Adham Baba from March 2020 to August 2021. He is a member of the Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS), a component party of the Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) coalition.{{cite web|url=http://www.parlimen.gov.my/index.php?modload=ahlidewan&uweb=dr&action=details&id=382|title=Ago Anak Dagang, Y.B. Tuan|publisher=Parliament of Malaysia|language=ms|access-date=7 June 2010}}

Before entering the Parliament, he was the political secretary to the former Minister for Energy, Communications and Multimedia, Leo Moggie Irok.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=hUAhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=v3sFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3420,3689226&dq=aaron+dagang&hl=en|title='Don't quit as federal minister' appeal to Moggie|date=7 December 2003|work=New Straits Times|publisher=New Straits Times Press|access-date=7 June 2010}} He then replaced Moggie in the Kanowit federal seat when the latter stepped down from politics during the 2004 general elections.{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-91941183.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104000705/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-91941183.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 November 2012|title=Moggie confirms he will not seek re-election|date=9 March 2004|work=New Straits Times|publisher=New Straits Times Press|access-date=20 April 2010}} After the election, his Sarawak Native People's Party (PBDS) was de-registered,{{cite news|url=http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/state_news/news.php?id=289216&cat=sre|title=Masing Maintains Kanowit Parliamentary Seat Belongs To PRS|date=9 October 2007|work=Berita Wilayah Sarawak|publisher=Bernama|access-date=7 June 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622075456/http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/state_news/news.php?id=289216&cat=sre|archive-date=22 June 2011|url-status=dead}} he then joined the Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP){{cite news|url=http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/state_news/news.php?id=229335&cat=sre|title=SPDP Has No Intention To Rival Other BN Component Parties – Mawan|date=12 November 2006|work=Berita Wilayah Sarawak|publisher=Bernama|access-date=7 June 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622075516/http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/state_news/news.php?id=229335&cat=sre|archive-date=22 June 2011|url-status=dead}} and later the PRS.{{cite news|url=http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/3/22/nation/20080322173344&sec=nation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622015535/http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2008%2F3%2F22%2Fnation%2F20080322173344&sec=nation |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 June 2011 |title=PRS MPs pledge support to Abdullah |date=22 March 2008 |work=The Star |publisher=Star Publications (Malaysia) |access-date=7 June 2010 }} He retained the Kanowit seat in the 2008 election unopposed.{{cite news|url=http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/state_news/news.php?id=316759&cat=sre|title=Five BN Wins, An Early Sign Tipping The Sarawak BN Scale|last=Jackson|first=Caroline|date=27 February 2008|work=Berita Wilayah Sarawak|publisher=Bernama|access-date=7 June 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622075532/http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/state_news/news.php?id=316759&cat=sre|archive-date=22 June 2011|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}